Anterior tibial artery pseudoaneurysm due to interlocking bolt of tibial nail: A case report and review

Vascular injuries associated with the tibial nailing have been reported in few case reports. We here reporta unique case of anterior tibial artery (ATA) pseudoaneurysm caused by the second proximal coronalinterlocking bolt. We found that the position of interlocking bolts on the nail brings them very close tothe anatomical positions of arteries in leg. The reports of ATA injury by interlocking bolts highlight theneed for reconsidering the nail design and screw hole positions.© 2017 Turkish Association of Orthopaedics and Traumatology. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. This isan open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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